Word

גָּשַׁשׁ

gâshash · H1659 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to grope

To feel about blindly or uncertainly with one's hands because of one's inability to see, in order to find one's way

Examples
Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like people who are blind, We grope like those who have no eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; Among those who are healthy we are like the dead.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

Not stated: we 2

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קִירwall 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

כlike/as+ אַיִןthere is no, not 1
כlike/as+ עִוֵּרblind 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Feel002004001001: The verb describes groping or feeling one's way, used of Isaiah's image of people groping along a wall like the blind, unable to find their way.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1659. gashash [גשׁשׁ] verb feel with the hand, feel, stroke (Late Hebrew id., Arabic ,…

H1659. gashash
[גשׁשׁ] verb feel with the hand, feel, stroke (Late Hebrew id., Arabic , Aramaic גְשַׁשׁ Pa`el, ; Ethiopic or stroke, touch) —
Pi`el Imperfect1plural cohortative נְגַשֲׁשָׁ֫ה Isa 59:10, נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁה ib., grope, grope for compare Che.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Feel2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0